DOUBLE JEOPARDY WARS
By: Lieutenant General PC Katoch, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SC (Retd)
D Stiegman’s article in Small Wars Journal dated 13 June 2013 outlining seven emerging conflicts of concern to the US Military makes interesting reading. It is presumed that countries involved in each of these seven conflicts have been named purely on bas..
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CHINA’S UAV PROGRAMME
By: Gp Capt AK Agarwal
The Chinese Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) programme dates back to 1950, when it procured La-17 drones from Russia and were able to reverse engineer it to produce the Shenyang BA-5 UAV (exported version Chang Kong-1 or CK-1). This drone which first flew in 1..
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A STRATEGY TO DEAL WITH NAXALISM
By: Col Akshaya Handa
Firstly, the contention that the Naxals have moved into the vacuum left by the governance deficit due to the state abandoning its primary responsibility fails to define why the same government structures have succeeded in some parts to keep the Naxal..
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PAKISTAN’S RECENT ELECTIONS AND THE TALE OF THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE
By: Colonel GG Pamidi
An Op Ed in the reputed “The New York Times” by Michael Krepon, has compared Indian and Pakistani nuclear trajectories to the tale of the fabled tortoise and hare . In the op ed, the argument made out is that Pakistan, whose economy and domestic cohesion..
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SWARMING DOCTRINE OF ASYMMETRIC NAVAL WARFARE
By: Captain Sandeep Dewan, IN
Warfare theorists and practitioners were unanimous in opinion that the information age had reshaped the nature of modern conflict. The Gulf War provided credence to a modernised military coalition mounting high-tech, fast-moving, coordinated strikes,..
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CYBER WAR – A TUTORIAL
By: Lieutenant General Davinder Kumar, PVSM, VSM & Bar (Retd)
The rapid and all pervasive deployment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has not only changed the way we inter- act and transact business but has ushered in Globalisation which has created a virtual world with no borders. The penetrat..
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AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE ON CHINESE PREMIER’S VISIT TO INDIA
By: Dr. Roshan Khaniejo
Mr. Li Keqiang, the newly elected Premier of the People's Republic of China made India his first overseas port of call. Though his visit had been planned in advance, this came in the aftermath of the Ladakh transgression, and under the circumstances,..
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CHINA’S UNCLOS RECIPROCITY
By: Captain Sandeep Dewan, IN
Paragraph 2 of Page 39 in the US Annual Report to Congress on the Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2013, reads “Additionally, the PLA Navy has begun to conduct military activities within the Exclusive Economic Zo..
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INDIA AND THE ARCTIC COUNCIL
By: Captain Sandeep Dewan, IN
The Ottawa Declaration of 1996 formally established the Arctic Council as a high level intergovernmental forum to provide a means for promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among the Arctic States, with the involvement of the Arctic indigenou..
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SPECIAL OPERATIONS
By: Lieutenant General PC Katoch, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SC (Retd)
Sub conventional war is and will remain the order of the day in 21st Century considering that irregular forces having demonstrated greater strategic value over conventional and even nuclear forces in recent years. The last war amongst two conventional mi..
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NEEDED - REFLECTION AND ACTION
By: Lieutenant General PC Katoch, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SC (Retd)
The ambush by Maoists of a 30 vehicle convoy of a political party on 25 May 2013 in Chhattisgarh resulted in the instant killing of 17, wounding 20 and subsequent killing of some five hostages.........
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US DRONE ATTACKS AND TARGETED KILLINGS: LEGAL ISSUES
By: Gp Capt AK Agarwal
After the 11 September 2001 attack on the Twin Towers in New York, the US Congress passed a joint resolution authorising its President to use appropriate force to safeguard America’s borders and people from any future terrorist act.[1] Apart from Congress..
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CHINESE INTRUSION - PSYCHOLOGICAL CHALLENGE ?
By: Lieutenant General PC Katoch, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SC (Retd)
As per indigenous media, the government has surmised that the Chinese intrusion in area of Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) of Ladakh region is a localized action taken by the concerned PLA commander in the area. How such an assessment has been arrived at will..
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RECIPE FOR REDEMPTION
By: Lieutenant General PC Katoch, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SC (Retd)
A study published in April 2013 by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point titled ‘The Fighters of Lashkar-e-Taiba: Recruitment, Training, Deployment and Death’ graphically describes the abyss that Pakistan continues to plunge deeper. The paper talks..
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INTRUSIONS IN LADAKH
By: Lt Gen KK Khanna, PVSM, AVSM** (Retd)
From the Media we learn that about 20 troops of the PLA have intruded in the Daulat Beg Oldi Sector of Eastern Ladakh, which lies west of the Karakoram Range. We believe they have camped in tents since 15 April. It also appears the area has not been....
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THE CHINESE CHEQUERS
By: Major General PJS Sandhu, (Retd)
The Chinese move to establish a post across the perceived Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh on 15 Apr 2013 has come as a surprise to India in ways more than one. Its extent, timing and near permanency all add up to a new ball game. The flag m....
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DEFENSIVE FIRE SUPPORT IN ANTI-MAOIST OPERATIONS
By: Gp Capt AK Agarwal
Rural India has a history of social hierarchy and discrimination through casteism and communalism, with the poor landless farmers being oppressed by high caste landlords. Whenever the landless peasants were driven against the wall, India saw uprising..
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CHINA'S NUCLEAR POWERED AIRCRAFT CARRIER PROGRAMME
By: Captain Sandeep Dewan, IN
USS Enterprise (CVN 65), the world's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, recently completed its 25th and final deployment and returned to its homeport in Norfolk and was inactivated from active service on 01 December 2012. The aircraft carrier pa....
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GROUNDING OF USS GUARDIAN IN PHILIPPINES – PLAYING WITH OR PLAYING BY THE UNCLOS
By: Captain Sandeep Dewan, IN
USS Guardian (MCM-5) was commissioned on 16 December 1989 as an Avenger class mine countermeasures ship and was the second ship of its class to bear the same name. She ran aground on Tubbataha Reef on 17 January 2013 following a port call for....
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SEATO SYNDROME : PAKISTAN'S AFGHAN EPIPHANY
By: Lieutenant General PC Katoch, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SC (Retd)
The recent strategic comments by IISS, London titled ‘Pakistan’s Afghan Epiphany’ suffers from the same SEATO Syndrome as do some think tanks in the US; refusing to acknowledge Pakistan’s double game and nurturing utopian beliefs of Pakistan’s change..
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COMMENTS ON ‘PROXY WAR’ BY DR AMARJIT
By: Lt Gen KK Khanna, PVSM, AVSM** (Retd)
It is encouraging to find non-military personnel looking for solutions to counter Pakistan’s proxy war against India. Their ignorance of military affairs including low intensity conflict is understandable when perhaps their only source of knowledge is Hol..
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